The Piedmont Environmental Council hosts advocacy campaigns on a variety of local, state and (sometimes) federal issues. We also let local residents know about planning processes and other opportunities to weigh in. Find out about these campaigns through email alerts and social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). If you haven’t already signed up, you can sign up for email alerts today! We also have a resource to help you look up your elected officials.
Current Campaigns
Take Action: Help Make Oak Hill Virginia’s Newest State Park!
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create an expansive new state park in Loudoun County, a proposed park that will protect a National Historic Landmark and offer easy access to the outdoors for millions of visitors to and residents of Northern Virginia. Send a letter to your state legislators in support of this amendment before the General Assembly reconvenes April 2.
Take Action: Demand Accountability From Virginia’s Data Center Industry
Virginia is undergoing a massive economic, technological, and environmental transformation, all centered around the activities of one industry: data centers. Please use this letter to ask your elected officials in Virginia’s House and Senate for data center industry and utility reform during the 2024 General Assembly session and beyond.
Take Action Albemarle County: Support Funding for Better Connectivity and Access to the Outdoors
This petition is a message to Albemarle County’s Board of Supervisors that residents want to see more robust funding for trails, greenways, sidewalks and other infrastructure that allows community members to move about in ways that are safe, healthy and sustainable. As so many projects and people are interlinked between Charlottesville and Albemarle County, it’s important to see broad support from both elected bodies.
Take Action Charlottesville: Support Funding for Better Connectivity and Access to the Outdoors
This petition is a message to the City of Charlottesville City Council that residents want to see more robust funding for trails, greenways, sidewalks and other infrastructure that allows community members to move about in ways that are safe, healthy and sustainable. As so many projects and people are interlinked between Charlottesville and Albemarle County, it’s important to see broad support from both elected bodies.
Tell DOE: No Mid-Atlantic National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor
Action is urgently needed on a newly proposed and highly impactful federal transmission designation that would overstep state authority for transmission siting. Please submit comments to the Department of Energy and your representatives in Congress by June 24, 2024.
Take Action: Ask Congress to Support the AI Environmental Impacts Act
The U.S. is falling behind in regulating the data centers powering artificial intelligence. Ask Congress to support the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Environmental Impacts Act to protect our communities and our environment.
Take Action: Equitable Access to Biscuit Run Park
The Piedmont Environmental Council is working with Albemarle County, Habitat for Humanity and other community partners to accelerate a new entrance to Biscuit Run Park near Hickory Street in Albemarle County, just outside Charlottesville. The bridge and trail, which will cross Biscuit Run on the park’s western side, will also eventually connect to Fifth Street Station and downtown Charlottesville. But, we need your help.
Metal mining in Virginia risks public and environmental health
Gold mining historically occurred throughout Virginia in the gold-pyrite belt, including substantial operations across the PEC region in Orange, Culpeper and Fauquier counties. Now, half a century since metals were last mined commercially, the threat has resurfaced. PEC is currently working with a coalition of organizations to pass comprehensive statewide legislation at the Virginia General Assembly to ensure the health, safety and welfare of our communities.
Loudoun Petition: HOA Residents for Sustainable Landscaping
More than 60% of Loudoun residents are part of an HOA. Join with friends, neighbors and community members in showing support for sustainable landscaping practices at HOAs across Loudoun County.
Charlottesville/Albemarle Petition
This petition is a simple way to show elected officials in Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville that residents want better, more connected, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.